Police seek three men in beating, stabbing

By Scott F Davis

Posted: July 29, 2009 at 7:13 a.m.

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FAYETTEVILLE — Three Fayetteville men accused of beating and stabbing a man in Fayetteville last week face arrest warrants filed Tuesday.

Tommy Lee Colbert, 36, Christopher Shane Patton, 30, and Levar Kinte Livingston, 31, are charged as accomplices to first-degree battery. Colbert faces a separate charge of intimidating a witness.

The three men are accusedon July 22 of beating Albert Bynum with a baseball bat, cutting him with a knife, and kicking and punching him in an apartment at 2016 N. Gregg Ave.

After Bynum was released from the hospital, he picked the three men out of a photo lineup, according to the affidavit for arrest warrant. Police said witnesses corroborated his story.

Bynum suffered eight cuts or stab wounds, two severed blood vessels, and a large abrasion on his face andknees, according to the affidavit.

Fayetteville police said one witness at the scene told them that the suspects were involved in illegal drug activity and had probably returned to Marianna, where they are originally from, to avoid arrest.

This same witness also told police that Colbert called her and told her not to get involved with this situation or she would get hurt, according to the affidavit.

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